Supermarket
Several counters, one stock file, no cloud
The moment a shop has a second till, two questions get expensive: does every counter agree about the stock, and can you tell what happened at each one. SalezFlow POS runs extra tills over your own shop network against the same data on the main computer. You approve every device before it can do anything, one receipt printer can serve them all, and takings, discounts and variances are reported per cashier.
What goes wrong today
Three things this trade loses money on.
Every till has its own idea of the stock
There is one stock file, on the main computer, and every counter works against it. The sale that would take a product below zero is refused by the database itself, so two counters scanning the last packet at the same instant resolve to exactly one winner and the other cashier is told immediately.
Anyone who plugs in a laptop is on your system
A new device waits at the door until the owner lets it in. You can give it access until a chosen date, and cut it off instantly mid-shift from Settings — the till is signed out within seconds rather than at its next page load.
Discounts are where the money goes and nobody sees it
Set the most any bill may be discounted. Going past the cap, or charging other than the shelf price, needs a manager's password typed in at that till, and the approver is recorded beside the bill. The cashier stays signed in and the bill keeps their name.
What you get
Everything a supermarket runs on.
One app, one price. Nothing here is an add-on, and nothing here is a promise the download breaks.
Extra tills over your own network
A second PC, a tablet or a phone on the shop's Wi-Fi or cable, all working on the same stock and the same bills. No cloud account, no per-till subscription, and no dependency on the connection to the street.
You approve every device
A machine that has not been let in cannot reach the login page, let alone the data. Approve it, give it an end date if you want one, and revoke it at any moment. How many run at once is set by your plan.
One printer, or one each
Share a single receipt printer through the main computer so every counter prints to it, or give each till its own. It is one setting either way, and receipts print silently with no pop-up at a busy counter.
Takings per cashier
Sales, returns, discounts given and the drawer variance, broken out by the person who rang them up. A card campaign the shop is running is never charged against the cashier who happened to be on the till.
Split payments and card offers
One bill settled part cash, part card, part on account — taxed once, as one bill. A card offer applies itself once the customer says how they are paying, and the receipt shows what it took off.
Loyalty that is points, not a discount
Customers earn on what they spend and pay with the points next time. The bill is still priced and taxed in full, so the tax office's share never leaks out of your margin.
Questions
What a supermarket usually asks.
Does the shop stop if the main computer is off?
The extra tills work against the main computer, so it needs to be on — but none of it depends on the internet. That is the trade: your shop's own network instead of somebody else's server.
Can a phone or a tablet be a till?
Yes. It connects over the same shop network and gets the same screens. It still has to be approved by the owner before it can do anything.
How do I hand a till over mid-shift?
A shift belongs to the drawer, not to a person, so two cashiers can share one counter across a handover and the Z-report still attributes each of them separately inside it.
What stops a cashier reversing a sale they rang up wrong?
Nothing stops it being fixed — but cancelling a bill needs a manager, because it reverses stock, a receivable and a drawer figure at once. It is only possible while that till's shift is still open; after the drawer is counted the answer is a return, which is a document of its own.
Put your own products in and pull the cable.
That is the whole argument, and it takes an afternoon. Install it, enter twenty real lines, ring up a sale with the network unplugged, and take a backup.
What you need
Read next
- Connect terminalsRun one PC as the shop server and add tills, tablets and phones over cable or Wi-Fi.
- Devices & seatsApproving a till, giving it an end date, removing it instantly, and what your plan's device limit means.
- Printers & scannersShare one receipt printer between every terminal, or give each its own, and how barcode scanners work with the POS.
- Why offline-firstSix guarantees and the mechanism behind each, plus an honest comparison of an offline till against a cloud POS.
- FeaturesThe twelve things the app does: barcode billing, stock that cannot oversell, credit accounts, batches and expiry, shifts, loyalty, promotions and filable reports.